Hi,
I know there is an automation: When a status changes to something, assign someone as assignee.
What I’d like to be able to do is assign the person who changed the status as the assignee.
The use case here is for our van tracking.
I want to be able for a member of the team to check out a van. When they set the status to checked out, the assignee column should update to themsleves.
At the moment I can’t see a way to set the assignee as the status changer.
Hi, @ben12 - You currently can’t do this with native automations. How many team members could potentially check out a van? If it’s just a handful, I’d make custom statuses tied to each person, and then use the “when status changes to X, assign Y in the People column”.
CO - Dan
CO - Susan
CO - Barry
etc. as your statuses.
hi @ben12
I have an app that does do this for you, currently it is on button click but I can extend it to status change. It takes the userId from the user who clicked the button (not the user who installed the app). The app is working but I need to bring it to production, do the documentation etc, so now is the time to extend it with a status change trigger if you want.
Let me know.
CORRECTION: this can’t be done on a status change as monday does not send the userId form the user who initiated the status change in the trigger.
hi @ben12 I created a little free app for this with the recipe
Feel free to use it as much as you want, it’s free forever 
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The installation link is: monday.com: Where Teams Get Work Done
Hi… Has this evolved into a product… I tried to use it but no luck.
Do you know any other way to assign the person who actually is logged in as creator, updater or to any person field through an automation?
Thanks
Gariva
hi @gariva
Welcome to the community. That app is still alive and kicking. What is it that does not work for you?
Sorry for the dumb question but how do I use this, I have installed the app but I cant find assign to me in the integrations.
Thanks
When I try and use the app, I get a ‘Oops…Something went wrong on our end’ error message. I really need the ability to have the owner/person/whomever be that person that updates the status to work on it.
Please advise on if this has been fixed
hi Sharon,
Did you create a custom automation like this one:
As this is just a free sample app there is no support for it. I just tested the above and that works fine.
No – but I will try that for sure.
Thanks for the info.
Unfortunately that does not work with subitems. Is there any apps that would function – as the app below – with a subitem
You can build the standard monday.com custom automation like this
Hello @basdebruin , I am trying to use “Assign me app”, I already added it to my subscription but I can’t find a way to use it, Regards
hi @helen
Did you try to build a custom automation as shown above?
Oh yes, I have already used it and it works fine, thanks for that. Sorry, I wrote the post a few days ago and it was just published, thank you very much
@basdebruin I realise there’s no support for this, but is it still working? I have installed and set an automation. It says it ran, but it hasn’t assigned ‘me’ to the specified people column.
It should still work. If you let me know your monday account URL I can check the logs.
All errors I see (on Oct 30) are because he app is triggered by a user with a userId -4. For monday a user with userId -4 is a guest user and guest users can’t be assigned to a people column.
Not a guest. My id in the system and federated SSO via M365. Just as a check, I definitely can be assigned in a people column
